AUTOVAZ increased sales of LADA cars by 17% in 2017

AVTOVAZ sold 32,580 LADA cars on the Russian market in December, which is more by 17.9% than a year ago. As noted, this is the best result of monthly sales for the last three years. By the results of 2017, Russian LADA dealers sold 311,588 cars, reported the press service of AVTOVAZ. It is more by 17% in compare with the previous year, and, according to the company's own estimate, it is ahead of the growth of the whole automotive market in 2017.

According to AvtoVAZ's own assessment, LADA keeps the leading position in the Russian market of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles with a share of 19.5%, and with a share of 20.5% - in the segment of only passenger cars. Also, four models of LADA are among the top-ten by sales in Russia. LADA Granta took the second place - in 2017 it was sold 93,686 cars (+ 6.8%).

Sales of LADA Vesta grew by 40.1% and they were 77,291 cars, including 5,518 estate cars LADA Vesta SW and LADA Vesta SW Cross. LADA Largus (passenger cars and light commercial models) enjoyed the stable demand – in the last year 41,741 cars were sold. By terms of growth rates in 2017, the leader was LADA XRAY – 33,319 cars were sold, which is more by 67% than the last year's result.

In 2017, LADA's retail sales in foreign markets (in 30 countries) grew by 31% up to 24 thousand cars. The main export markets for AVTOVAZ are Belarus and Kazakhstan. In addition, AVTOVAZ started the deliveries of LADA cars to China, to Cuba, to Lithuania and Jordan in the last year. The company is considering the possibility of entering other markets, but the decision has not been made yet. The most sold model in export markets is still the SUV LADA 4x4.